Nestle Purina PetCare Company

Paper Summary:

The paper explores the controllable and uncontrollable features of the domestic, foreign and international environments that have influenced the activities at Purina, as well as the issues which influence the company's decision-making process and its globalization. The paper shows how the company's success is based on their adaptability to these forces.

Outline:
Executive Summary
Forces of the Environment
Domestic Environment
Foreign Environment
International Environment
Decision Making Core Complex
Seven Global Dimensions

From the Paper:

"Purina is headquartered in the United States, but operates throughout the globe in no less than thirty-eight countries. The company we know today resulted from a 2001 merger between Ralston Purina Company and a subsidy of Nestle. Nestle Purina PetCare Company, the resulting company, is not a publicly traded organization (Purina Website, 2008).
"The activities at Purina have been influences by a series of national and international forces and based on the company's adaptability to these forces, the successful outcome was retrieved. These forces include the controllable and uncontrollable features of the domestic, foreign and international environments, alongside with the issues which influence the decision making process and the globalization throughout seven dimensions."

Sample of Sources Used:

• 2008, Official Website of Nestle Purina PetCare Company, http://www.purina.com/, last accessed on January 21, 2008
• 2008, Nestle Purina PetCare Company, Hoovers, a D&B Company, http://www.hoovers.com/nestl%C3%A9-purina-petcare/--ID__104717--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml, last accessed on January, 21, 2008
• 1995, Ralston Purina, Securities Information, http://www.secinfo.com/d2FU1.a24.htm, last accessed on January 21, 2008

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